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She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
Actor
Artist
Author
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
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Green
Like
Blue
Squinted
Took
Prisms
Broken
Sparkle
Bits
Dots
Eyes
Shattered
Dark
Gray
Though
Glasses

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